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Germaine Dulac
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| -Made some important impressionist films including "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and "Gossette". But she spent most of her career making conventional film |
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-Indicates something more complex than an object simply being photogenic.
-quality that distinguishes a film shot from the original object photographed |
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-Fantasy Film Genre
-1st Film was "Sleeping Paris" (the Crazy Ray)
-used freeze frame techniques and unmoving actors to create an immobile city
-Fantasy films drew upon camera tricks and stylized sets |
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-Used many Optical Shots
-Passion of Napoleopn and Josephine as they kissed is conveyed by a series of gauze filters that drop one by one until they blur the screen grey.
-Gance divided the frame into a grid of smaller distinct images.
-Used 3 cameras side by side to create an extremely wide format called a triptych |
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| -Rising german actor, worked with Negri on "they Eyes of the Mummy Ma" and "Madame Dubarry" |
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Universum film Aktiengellschaft
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| Producing companies rose from 25 in 1914 to 130 in 1918. By the end of the war the formation of the UFA started a trend toward mergers and larger companies |
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| Film firms sought to adapt prestigious literary works and to have established authors write original screenplays |
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Florence Lawrence
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-Regularly appeared in Griffith's films
-Known as the "Biograph Girl" |
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The motion pictures patents company
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| Edison and American Mutoscope and Biograph created a seperate company that would control all competitors by owning and charging licensing fees on the existing key patents |
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| One character looking off scren and then a cut to another character looking in the opposite direction at the first. |
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| A firm Controlling the production, distribution and exhibition of a film |
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-Commited reportage, calling for reform in the political unity that was briefly achieved during the resistance and the italian spring.
-importance layed in ablility to make characters problems universally significant.
-documentary approach made viewer aware of everyday life |
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Germany, Year Zero
(1947) |
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-Final filmin Rossellini's war trilogy.
-takes place in post war germany
-used mainly local, non-professional actors
-He filmed on location in berlin and intended to convey reality in germany the year after its near total destruction after WWII |
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Telefono/Bianco
"white telephone films" |
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-Expensive art deco sets featuring white phones (status symbol)
-These films tended to be socially conservative
-Promote family values, respect for authority, a rigid class hierarchy, and country life. |
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Cesare Zavattini
(1902-1989) |
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-Often Expressed the desire to make a film that simply followed a man through 90 minutes in his life.
-writer of "Bicycle Thief" |
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| Trains, trucks, and even steamboats that were painted with caricatures and slogans. They carried out propaganda leaflets, printing presses, and even small filmmaking set ups. Put on theatrical skits or showed movies on an outdoor screen for local crowds |
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| Vertically integrated firms that controlled big theater chains- Paramount-Publix, Loew's (MGM), and First national- constituted the big three at the top of the american film industry. |
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The Big Parade
(1925) |
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| It tells the story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. |
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-a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith.
-Among Bitzer's innovations were
the fade out to close a movie scene;
the iris shot where a circle closes to close a scene;
soft focus photography with the aid of a light diffusion screen;
filming entirely under artificial lighting rather than outside;
lighting, closeups and long shots to create mood;
perfection of matte photography. |
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| a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene Dietrich. |
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Alexander Dovzhenko
(1895-1956) |
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| was a Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director of Ukrainian descent. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers |
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| Max (1883-1972) and Dave (1894-1979) Fleischer |
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-Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope
-founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios until Paramount Pictures, the studio's parent company and the distributor of its films, forced them to resign in April 1942. In its prime, it was the most significant competitor to Walt Disney Productions, and is notable for bringing to the screen cartoons featuring Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Bimbo, Popeye the Sailor, and Superman. |
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| Japanese performers who provided live narration for silent films |
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| overall meaning is derived through context, i.e., while an individual shot has some meaning as a photographic record of something, it acquires larger meaning in juxtaposition to the other shots around it. |
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| multiple cameras shooting one scene because each scene had to be filmed straight through in it entirety. Made matching up dialouge and the actors mouth easier |
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-an American film studio.
-The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
-They were spurred on by established Hollywood producers and distributors who were tightening their control over actor salaries and creative decisions, a process that evolved into the rigid studio system. |
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| Centralizing industry: Collapse all companies into one studio/ company, (Soviet Cinema) all in one easiest to control, government appoints who is in charge of company, like NASA. Boris Shumyatskyappointed in charge; he was not into film but in Good standing with Stalin. Older style Increasingly frowned upon, demonizing that type of experimentation, more of a peasant-friendly cinema |
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| Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes. The soundtrack was not printed on the actual film, but was issued separately on 16 inch (40 cm) and, later, 12 inch (30cm) phonograph discs recorded at 33 1/3 rpm, a speed first used for this process. |
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Erich Von Stroheim
(1885-1957) |
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- an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.
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